 Core Team Field Team Research Affiliates and Partners
You may contact the RPED team at the following address: Private Sector Development
Africa Region, Room J10-177
World Bank
1818H St., N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20433
Tel: 202-473-9574
Fax: 202-477-2978 Core Team
| Jean Paul Azam, a French national and Professor of Economics at the University of Toulouse. Jean-Paul Azam's research themes include Economics of Developing Countries and Macroeconomics, Growth, International Economics and Public Economics |  | Demba Ba is Sector Manager of the Africa Private Sector Group, where RPED is based. He is an expert on privatization; enterprise restructuring with an emphasis on telecommunications,agro-industry, utilities; project financing,institutional development; and private sector assessments. His experience includes projects related to private concessions of water & electricity, privatization of petroleum products distribution networks,liberalization of the telecommunications sector, privatization of airlines,and the restructuring of port authorities. Demba has worked in several countries, including Cote d'Ivoire, Senegal, Mali, Guinea, Benin, Mauritania, Morroco, Somalia, Congo, and Gabon. He has six years of field experience as a project officer with the World Bank and USAID dealing with implementation as well as policy issues. He is fluent in Fulani, French, English, and Arabic. |  | George Clarke, a British national, started working at the World Bank in 1996. Before joining the RPED team in 2005, he was a member of the Competition Policy and Regulation team in the Development Research Group. His work has focused on privatization, competition and regulation of infrastructure and banking and on the investment climate. He was a core member of the team working on the 2005 World Development Report: A Better Investment Climate for Everyone. His research has been published in several books and academic journals including the Journal of Law and Economics, the Journal of Public Economics, and the Journal of Development Economics. He has a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Rochester |  | James Habyarimana, a Ugandan national, is Assistant Professor of Public Policy at Georgetown University and research fellow at the Center for Global Development. He has been associated with RPED since 2002. James has conducted extensive fieldwork in Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Zambia and South Africa on private sector development, the political economy of development policy and education and health policy in developing countries. He completed his PhD in development economics in 2004 at Harvard University where his research touched on the disease environment as a constraint to productivity, the benefits of banking relationships to firms and the role of public finance in improving educational outcomes in Zambia . |  | Giuseppe Iarossi, an Italian national, is Sr. Economist in the Investment & Growth Group of the Research Department (DEC) . and in the Regional Program for Enterprise Development of the Africa Private Sector Development Group (AFTPS) . He joined the Bank in 1994 as part of the Macro & Growth division of the Research Dept. and worked on determinants of long-term growth with particular emphasis on ethnicity in Africa. Since 1997 he has been a core team member of the Investment Climate team contributing to the development of the Investment Climate program throughout the Bank. He has managed surveys in Africa, Latin America, South Asia, and East Asia and has participated to the writing of a number of assessments and research papers. His interests include survey methodology and the impact of survey design effects on data accuracy, firm productivity and the impact of the business environment on firm performance. He holds a Master degree in Economics form the University of Maryland at College Park and a Master degree in International Affairs from the Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies. He received an MBA from the University of Siena and a CPA certification from the University of Naples. He is adjunct professor in survey methodology at the School of Advanced International Studies of the Johns Hopkins University |  | Jean Michel Marchat, a French national, is an economist for the RPED specializing in trade policy, competition and labor market issues. He joined the RPED as a consultant in 1995 for the Côte d'Ivoire case studies. Since then, he was involved in survey work and related research on Ethiopia, Eritrea, Mozambique, Nigeria and Togo. Prior to joining the RPED team, Jean Michel has lectured for several years at CERDI (France) both at the University and on a World Bank sponsored seminar to improve the policy analysis skills of officials from developing countries and transition economies. In addition, between 1998 and 2002 he led a European Union capacity-building program in the Republic of Kazakhstan in the field of macroeconomic modeling and forecasting models. He holds a Master in Development Economics from CERDI and obtained his Ph.D. in Economics from CERDI in 1997. |  | Melanie Smeallie Mbuyi, an American national, has been with the Bank since 1991. As RPED’s Program Coordinator, she manages all administrative aspects of the research program including program and funding coordination, donor relations, trust fund supervision, contracts, publication production and dissemination. Prior to joining the Bank, she worked for ten years in the Democratic Republic of the Congo for the United States Peace Corps and the U.S. Embassy as a Commercial Attaché, where she earned the State Department's Meritorious Service Award. Ms. Mbuyi, originally from Upstate New York, attended the University of Nairobi and is a graduate of St. Lawrence University. She speaks fluent French and Tshiluba and can order a beer in Lingala and Swahili. |  | Manju Kedia Shah, an Indian national, has been associated with RPED since its inception in 1991, and helped to develop the questionnaire, survey implementation process and statistical analysis. Her special research interests include issues relating to enterprise productivity and growth in Sub-Saharan Africa. She has co-authored several research papers in this area and has developed several econometric and statistical procedures for analysis of RPED data. Manju is presently working on a paper that examines enterprise growth in nine sub-Saharan African countries. Manju completed her PhD in Economics (Industrial Organization) at the University of Maryland in 1995. |  | Vijaya Ramachandran, an American national, is Assistant Professor at Georgetown University, working on issues related to the investment climate, firm growth, entrepreneurship and foreign investment in Sub-Saharan Africa. Until recently, she was senior economist in the Africa Private Sector Group of the World Bank and now serves as a consultant to AFTPS. Prior to joining the World Bank, Vijaya taught at Duke University for six years and served as an economist in the Executive Office of the Secretary General of the United Nations. She has written articles on foreign direct investment in Asia and Africa, the agricultural transformation in South Korea, manufacturing and export growth in India, the private sector in Africa, and is currently working on three papers--the political economy of reform in Africa, wage determination in African labor markets and how firms deal with worker illness in Africa. Vijaya received her PhD in Business Economics from Harvard University in 1991 |  | Ginger Turner, an American national, recently joined the RPED team as a Junior Professional and currently researches the economics of HIV/AIDS in the workplace in East Africa. She previously worked as a visiting researcher at the University of Cape Town and with the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa, and for a for-profit solar lighting company in rural India. She holds an M.S. in Management Science & Engineering and a B.A. in Economics from Stanford University. |  | Yutaka Yoshino, a Japanese national, is a trade economist with interests in domestic investment climate and economic integration of low-income countries, economic geography and growth, and South-South trade and investment facilitation. He recently co-authored the World Bank report "Patterns of Africa-Asia Trade and Investment" (2004) and continues his work on South-South aspects in Africa's private sector development. His past research work also includes several publications on environmental policies and international trade. Yutaka was a member of Japanese delegation to the United Nations from 1995 to 1998 and was a summer associate at Resources for the Future in 2001. He obtained his master’s degrees from Columbia University (international relations) and from the University of Virginia (economics), where he is currently writing his Ph.D. dissertation on trade, environment and development. Yutaka also taught undergraduate economics at UVA during his residence. |
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